She continued: “I just lay there and then as he went out he stabbed me in my arm.

“That man deserves putting away for life.”

Justice Kathryn Thirlwall praised her “great strength and fortitude”, and told Faughey: “It’s quite clear to me having read the papers there had been a prolonged animosity from you towards your neighbour and she was clearly frightened of you.”

Faughey pleaded guilty to wounding with intent and manslaughter – a charge that was accepted by prosecutors because of his “diminished responsibility” due to suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.

Justice Thirlwall imposed an interim hospital order under the Mental Health Act to allow for medical evidence to be collected before sentencing.

He will now be placed at a medium secure unit at Prestwich Hospital’s Edenfield Centre.

But the judge warned: “Whatever sentence I pass on you, you are going to be in custody for many years.”

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